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The Stillness of the Wind

PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Nintendo Switch, Mac • 2019

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Quick resume

A quiet game of life and loss. One by one, everyone left the village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Approaching her final years, she maintains a simple way of life tending to her homestead, surviving, subsisting, whilst increasingly disturbing letters arrive from her family in the city.

Global score

75/100

Genres

Adventure, Indie, Simulator

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    Pros

    • Unique emotional narrative
    • Poetic and contemplative atmosphere
    • Simple and immersive gameplay
    • Beautiful art and music
    • Thought-provoking themes of aging and loss

    Cons

    • Slow pacing may frustrate some players
    • Short game length
    • Limited gameplay variety
    • Minimal replay value
    • Some minor bugs and glitches

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Survival, Competence, Violence. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

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    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
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    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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